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Amazon's fight with Macmillan was to prevent Agency Pricing from becoming the standard. Had Amazon won that battle e-books would be less expensive because the distributors (Amazon, BN, Sony, Kobobooks) would have been the ones setting the price. Newly released books that Amazon was selling for $9.99 are not selling for $14.99.
All of the major e-reader bookstores (Sony, Amazon, BN, Kobobooks) use a closed format. Sony, Kobo, and BN use an Adobe DRM to read their books with BN has its own Adobe DRM that is different then Sony and BN.
What it comes down to is that all of the large e-reader bookstores have the same prices and use the same practices when it comes to DRM. Had Amazon won its fight with Macmillon, and not Apple, you would be paying less for your e-books.
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